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to Him by Radharani. She therefore became absorbed in anger and
began to move her eyebrows, expressing her anger in ecstatic love.
Ghastliness

There is a statement by Yamunacarya to this effect: “Since I have
begun to enjoy these transcendental exchanges of love, which are
always newer and newer, whenever I remember the pleasure of past
sex life, my lips curl and I wish to spit on the idea.” This is an in-
stance of ecstatic love in ghastliness.
Dread

One old devotee said, ‘““My dear Lord, when we are away from
You we become so anxious to see You again, and there is great
misery in our lives. But then, when we do see You, there immediately
comes the fear of separation. Under the circumstances, both when
we see You and when we do not see You, we are subjected to differ-
ent kinds of tribulation.” This is an instance of a contradictory mix-
ture of ecstatic love for Krsna. Such ecstatic love is palatable, and
expert critics have compared such. ecstatic love with a mixture of
curd, sugar candy and a little black pepper. The combined taste is
very palatable.
